Woman Upgraded To 1st Class After Dying In Economy

Woman Upgraded To 1st Class After Dying In Economy

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A passenger in first class woke up to a shock when he found himself sitting near a corpse on a British Airways flight, British newspapers reported on Monday.

Paul Trinder, 54, said cabin crew moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off, the Mirror and Sun tabloids said.

"The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. "It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."

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Can you imagine watching flight personnel take a corpse out of a seat in economy, then strap it into a seat in 1st class? It had to be ungainly at best. Corpses really do have what they call "dead weight". Planes do not have very much room to begin with - to do this had to be horrific for the passengers.

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I guess that's one way to get bumped up to first class, though I don't see it becoming a very popular method.

An elderly lady passed away on a Wardair flight I was on. The cabin crew asked around for a doctor, and a lady went up to check on her, but it was too late. The pilot came back to check, and then they reclined her seat and covered her with a couple blankets. They did move some passengers away from her, and someone sat beside her until we landed.

No one made any fuss, though the last hour of the flight was pretty quiet and somber, and I don't think anyone spoke a word when we deplaned.

I think it would have been worse to drag the body through the cabin. :shk:

While the whole thing sounds like something out of the twilight zone, what were they supposed to do? I mean, the guy certainly didn't want the body to remain beside him. They are 35,000 feet in the air, I don't know what else they could have done.